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| Portrait looked like it was starting out well ... |
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| When I started applying the flesh tones, the orange in the shadows was apparently too much. |
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| I tried lifting it with a sponge, but it left the paper surface too grainy and roughened. I played with the hair , but that didn't inspire me too much, so this will be re-cycled as a color-testing swatch. |
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| The bird seems to be all right. I wanted to play with a technique I read about a few years ago, gradually masking small areas and then painting. |
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| Initially, I used aureolin, quin. burnt orange and cobalt blue. It wasn't quite intense enough, so I did some sectional washes with mixes of aureolin, quin. burnt orange and phthalo green[YS]. |
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| It came out all right, but may need some tweaking. As always, I welcome your comments! |
